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(No Model.) v V J. JENKINS.

SAFETY PIN. n 1 No. 276,971. Patented May 1', 1888.

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ATTORNEY i of its shield countersunk below the wire of the I UNITED ST TES PATENT O JOEL JENKINS, OF MONTGLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

SAFETY-PIN.

. SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 276,971, dated May 1, 1883.

Application filed January 2,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOEL JENKINS, of Mont o1air,Essex county, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvementin safety-pins; and the invention consists in. a safety-pin shield having invisibleseammand struck up from a blank of the shape hereijnafter described; and the inven tion also consists in a safety-pin with the face pin, as stated herein.

in the several figures.

would scratch, so that the pins with such shields did not present a finished appearance,

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of the blank.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of shield completed.

Fig. 3 is aback elevation of shield completed. Fig. 4 is a view of shield on pin. Fig. 5 is a cross-section taken in line as m, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of completed pin and shield. Similarletters of reference indicatelike parts As is well known, the shields for safety-pins have heretofore been made; from blanks of many different shapes, so that when the blank has been folded in a. given way theshields for thesafety-pins have been completed; but in all such shields the joints produced by folding together the several parts of the blanks left seams that were not onlyunsightly, but frequently produced an irritating surface that and were not strictly harmless.

The purpose of this invention is to make a shield for safety-pins that can be so struck or drawn up as to-render the necessary joints or seams in theshield practically invisible. 'To that end in theconstruction of my shield I the requisite proportion andform struck or stamp out with suitable dies a blank, A, with a projection, a, in the. center of its upper edge, gradual curved lines 6 forming its upper edge,'rounded corners 0, beveled sides d, and slightly-curved lower edge or base, 6, the

whole outlineresembling somewhat that of a.

crown. Theblank, having the foregoing shape of any desired size, is then by suitable dies of eralparts of the blank A are in this way drawn up to form a completed shield, the points of juncture or places at which the several edges of the blank meet, as atf and g, are practicallyinvisible, so that the shield, to all'intents and purposes and in appearance, is as it it were made by casting it in a mold, instead of simply drawing it up from sheet-metal by means of dies. Therefore no unsightly seams are apparent to mar the finish of the shield, and none oppose their rough and jagged edges to irritate and wound the skin of the wearer. The completed shield in this way made is secured to thewire of the pin by creasing the shield about oraround such wire, as ,at h.

Safety-pins have had their shields fixed to the pins in a similar manner heretoforet'. 6.;C1'eaS- ing; but in creasing my shield to the pin I so crease the surface of the shield as to bring the creasing entirely around the end of the wire of the pin and up both sides of the face of the shield, the crease being so deep that the face is of the shield will have its surface countersunk below the surrounding wire of the pin as if it were inclosed in aframe. (See Fig. 5.) This not only adds to the general appearance of the pin, but it permits nothing. to come in contact with the body of the wearer excepting the smooth rounded outline of the wire at the end of the pin covered by the metal of the shield.

Having now described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A safety-pin with its shield made from a blank of the i'orm or pattern shown, and for the purpose hereinbefore described.

2. In a safety-pin, the shield B thereof constructed with invisible seams or joints, as and forthe purpose described.

8. In a safety-pin, the face of the shield thereof countersunk below the surface of the wire of the pin, which is inclosed by the shield, as and for the purpose described.

JOEL JENKINS. Witnesses:

G. W. PLYMPTON,

. JNO. N. BRUNS. 

